From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 3 23:44:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E36D1543C for ; Thu, 3 Jun 1999 23:42:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA21402; Thu, 3 Jun 1999 23:40:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 23:40:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Shawn Ramsey Cc: Ruslan Ermilov , Paul MacKenzie , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Best POP3 Server In-Reply-To: <19990602000856.A15086@cpl.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Shawn Ramsey wrote: > > > I have been using Qpopper (latest version) for quite some time and have to > > > say that I am not all that happy with it. It seems to make mistakes when > > > leaving mail on the server, and a few other errors, > > > > > > Can any tell me what the BEST (if there is one) POP3 server to use for > > > Freebsd with large volume email going through the site.. > > > > > > Thanks in advance for any hints and recommendations, > > > > > > Paul MacKenzie > > > > I prefer /usr/ports/mail/cucipop. > > Very fast, very clean. > > Cucipop is very nice, and stable. When we ran Qpopper, we had problems with > locked mail boxes quite frequently... other than that though, qpopper wasn't > bad. This was a sign in (older, insecure) versions of qpopper. 2.53 has been very good on our shell server. The lockfiles usually appear if the user cancels a session, and they disappear after ~15 minutes. At worst you just have to clear the file. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message